- rev=canonical bookmarklet and designing shorter URLs
Every site becomes a tinyURL generator, works if you can afford a small domain, not tenable long term.
(categories: python bookmarks tinyurl rev=canonical urls shortener ) - favikon
Easy web-based favicon generator.
(categories: tools favicon icons generator )
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Links: 4-12-2009
- Digg the Blog » Blog Archive » Digg Search: Now With 99.987% Less Suck
Based on Lucene + Solr.
(categories: search lucene filtering digg faceted ) - scottberkun.com » Where do your ideas die? (With a bad illustration)
It’s much more useful to study where the bottlenecks are, when and why new ideas are killed, and who the people are that are killing them.If you have 1000 new ideas a month, but 0 prototypes are ever made from them, what good is another 2000 ideas? It’s much better to study why there is no time or rewards for prototyping and focus on getting that number to go up.
(categories: innovation strategy management ideas )
Links: 4-9-2009
- Building Sites Around Social Objects (Live from Web 2.0) – ReadWriteWeb
1. Define your object, 2. define your verbs, 3. make the objects shareable, 4. turn invitations into gifts, 5. charge the publishers, not the spectators. Also: preconditions of disruptive innovation: #1 = simpler.
(categories: innovation social socialsoftware sharing socialobjects ) - Elastic Happiness – Anil Dash
Quote: "Put simply, an elastic artificial intelligence helps a game adapt to the varying skill levels of players, keeping a game competitive when it might otherwise simply let one player profit from an advantage to the degree that the game would become boring, frustrating, or simply unwinnable for all other players." Might have some applications for how we calculate status level points in Jive SBS.
(categories: status games points play rubberband )
Links: 4-2-2009
- Dive into history, 2009 edition [dive into mark]
Quote: "Oh, and there was one other little thing that happened between 2000 and 2009: search stopped sucking and took over the web. Kids today may not remember, but it used to be hard to find stuff on the web. Once you found it, you wanted to download it so you could read it offline." So true, I remember so many conversations about the polar bear book.
(categories: search information navigation ia informationarchitecture )
Links: 3-29-2009
- Epizeuxis – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
My personal word of the day. Via Caterina Fake.
(categories: language wikipedia linguistics )
Links: 3-26-2009
- Clearspace on Wikirank
Nice visualizations of wikipedia.org traffic, kind of like google trends but based on traffic rather than searches.
(categories: infoviz graphing visualization trends wikipedia )
Links: 3-23-2009
- Rands In Repose: The Makers of Things
I had no idea how cool the story of the Brooklyn Bridge was.
(categories: innovation inspiration engineering nyc bridges history )
Links: 3-21-2009
- ESPN Dev Blog
ESPN guys have a dev blog, rails though? Where?
(categories: blogs programming rails espn ) - Tell Us: Why does working at Google suck?
Google’s 20% time is known internally as 120% time. Fun idea while it lasted.
(categories: innovation google idea ) - This is why you’re fat.
Also, things I need to try: fried guacamole, deep fried cupcakes, bacon wrapped meatloaf stuff with mac ‘n cheese.
(categories: funny food america cooking health ) - Streams, affordances, Facebook, and rounding errors – Laughing Meme
Quote: "Don’t let your design make promises you can’t keep." Takeaway: we’re severely underestimating the scope of doing activity stream right, we need to put a lot more thought into how we design it and more specifically, what we’re *not* going to do.
(categories: messaging architecture flickr facebook design twitter scalability activity activitystreams ) - Protovis
Firefox only right now but the examples are really amazing.
(categories: infoviz visualization firefox javascript canvas stanford graphs )
Links: 3-20-2009
- Enjoymentland » Locavore 1.0 is now available!
Cool idea: a powerful yet simple application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that allows users to find the freshest, most sustainable fruits and vegetables no matter where they are in the United States.
(categories: iphone food location gps shopping locationenabled ) - Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Building Fast Client-side Searches
Couple interesting things about this post: a) they store your contacts in a blob, b) the client-side autocomplete / search algorithm could probably be used on Clearspace.
(categories: flickr performance optimization ajax javascript json )
Links: 3-19-2009
- Painless Functional Specifications – Part 4: Tips – Joel on Software
Rule 1: Be Funny, Rule 2: Writing a spec is like writing code for a brain to execute, Rule 3: Write as simply as possible, Rule 4: Review and reread several times, Rule 5: Templates considered harmful
(categories: writing programming documentation specification functionalspec functionaldesign requirements ) - Painless Functional Specifications – Part 3: But… How? – Joel on Software
(categories: software design documentation specification functionalspec functionaldesign requirements )
- Joel on Software: Sample Functional Specification: WhatTimeIsIt
(categories: software design documentation specification functionalspec functionaldesign requirements )
- Painless Functional Specifications – Part 2: What’s a Spec? – Joel on Software
(categories: software design documentation specification functionalspec functionaldesign requirements )
- Painless Functional Specifications – Part 1: Why Bother? – Joel on Software
(categories: software design documentation specification functionalspec functionaldesign requirements )
- Blogging Roller: OAuth everywhere!
This post explains, at a very high level, how [he] got a Roller Gadget working, one that uses OAuth to call Roller and enables Roller to use OAuth to call back to the social network.
(categories: blogs oauth roller apache wiki shindig opensocial ) - Design Fiction: A short slideshow on design, science, fact and fiction
ETech presentation: slide 24, quote: "Stories Matter More Than Features, Specs and Engineering."
(categories: design etech functionaldesign stories designfiction minorityreport ) - 7 Essential Guidelines For Functional Design | How-To | Smashing Magazine
Consider the screwdriver. The goal of a screwdriver is pretty straight-forward: to drive screws. Although there’s certainly a lot of room for innovation in screwdriver design — there are screwdrivers with more ergonomic handles, ratchet-assemblies, magnetic tips, and exchangeable heads — ultimately everything in a screwdriver’s design is aimed towards the accomplishment of that single goal: driving screws.
(categories: ux ui usability functionaldesign usermodel userfocus ) - Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
Round and round this goes, with the people committed to saving newspapers demanding to know “If the old model is broken, what will work in its place?” To which the answer is: Nothing. Nothing will work. There is no general model for newspapers to replace the one the internet just broke.With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem.
(categories: culture news publishing journalism media newspapers ) - rc3.org — Discomfort is a necessary side effect
People are too unwilling to face discomfort. Journalists don’t want to make the people they interact with on a daily basis squirm. People want to read that the politicians they support are fighting the good fight. And this reaches far beyond politics as well. Java programmers didn’t want to read that C# had a lot of nice language features that improved on weaknesses in Java. People in general seem to prefer to remain ignorant of the practices of industrial agriculture in the modern world.Ignorance may be bliss, but it also has negative externalities.
(categories: psychology growth learning discomfort ) - activity strea.ms
An effort to develop an Activity Stream protocol for syndicating activities taken in social web applications and services, similar to those in Facebook’s Newsfeed, FriendFeed, the Movable Type Action Streams plugin and elsewhere.
(categories: social atom standards web2.0 activity opensocial diso )